Last updated on May 19, 2022 by Guillermina
Wondering how to cook tongue on crockpot? Many people are discouraged at the prospect of eating an animal’s tongue, but it’s one of those dishes you have to try for yourself to really find out if you find it tasty or not. You have to keep an open mind and see beef tongue as another kind of meat. If you like soft meats like liver, and its most popular presentation, pâté, then you’ll probably find it quite detectable and familiar.
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beef
tongue recipe
It actually has a pretty fresh taste that’s similar to the kind of juiciness you’d find in a burger that’s been cooked on the lighter side. This is a big part of the reason why it can be made into a wide range of great dishes. It’s delicious when served in tacos, with tomato sauce, or in a stew served with white rice, just to name a few. It can also be enjoyed as a kind of sausage in a sandwich.
And there are many ways to make tongue at home, but one of the best ways is in a slow cooker, as it allows the final product to be tastier, for example, when you compare it to cooking it in the oven or on the stove. Slow cooking also ensures a wonderful kind of tenderness, so much so that it allows it to almost melt in the mouth.
Many people enjoy this slow cooking method for a special weekend breakfast with friends and family and find that they love it more often than it puts off when it comes to giving it a proper flavor.
Here’s a simple recipe anyone can follow to make delicious tongue tacos, and it may inspire you to look for other Mexican-language recipes, many of which include all sorts of hot chili peppers that give it an appealing flavor.
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Step by step instructions for our tongue recipe
Ingredients
Language
- Tongue Beef tongue
- whole onion
- 5 garlic cloves
- 2 teaspoons salt A teaspoon
- black pepper (It really should be freshly ground)
- A bay leaf
A
of
For tacos
- Hot tortillas
- Diced radishes
- Freshly chopped cilantro
- Lime
equipment
- Slow cooker
- Peel knife
Step 1: Rinse
your tongue
Start by rinsing the beef tongue very well. Be sure to remove as many impurities as possible.
Step 2: Place your tongue
in the pot
Now you can place it in the slow cooker. Remove the skin from the onion, cut it in half and place it on top. Evenly distribute garlic, salt, pepper and bay leaf.
Step
3: Cook
the tongue Cover the tongue with
water and then cook it slowly over low heat for 8 continuous hours or until the tongue feels tender when you piece it with a
knife.
Step 4: Remove
the skin
At this point, use the knife to remove and discard the skin. Then you can cut it into small cube-shaped pieces.
Step
5: Slowly cook
your tongue
Return it to the slow cooker and lower the heat level to just hot
.
Step 6: Serve
Allow everyone to serve on top of tortillas and add as much of each topping, radishes, cilantro and lime, as they want.
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Tips and ticks for
Mexican cow tongue If you bought a frozen product, let it gradually thaw on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator, This way you will lose a minimal amount of moisture.
If you have a large family, you’ll want to make sure you multiply the proportions of this recipe, so for example, you might want to use 4 languages instead of just one.
When it comes to making tongue tacos, you may also want to make a sauce that goes along with your tongue. The most common type that people use is tomatillo green sauce, which is very easy to prepare and will give it a truly juicy and fun flavor.
To get an idea of how
your tongue taco should turn out, a very good idea is to head to a place that does tongue tacos to examine how it turned out for them. You should also pay attention to the ingredients they serve on top. Some places are pretty partial to avocado slices, for example. In restaurants, they are also prepared in such a way that it is strongly recommended that they be enjoyed in a way that is complemented by a cold beer. So, this may influence your considerations of how you finally do it at home.
Finding the language is quite difficult, as it puts a lot of people off, so the best place to go to find it is in a Mexican or Asian supermarket. Some butcher shops may also be ordered by butcher shops, so you may want to ask until you find a place that can provide it.
It will be easy to clean the prepared tongue if it is transferred from the hot liquid to ice water and left on it for 1-2 minutes. After that, you can easily remove the skin.
When you are cutting the skin, you can choose to also remove the rough patch on the bottom of the tongue where it attached to the rest of the mouth.
Beef
tongue may sound like a bit of a strange food, but it is eaten in many different cultures. It is consumed worldwide in countries such as Mexico, Korea, Japan and widely throughout Latin America.
It really is one of those hidden gems that you should definitely try if you like soft meats, as is often the case in many French meat recipes with which you can eat the final product with a spoon.
One of the most popular Mexican recipes that use tongue is the creamy tongue in mushroom sauce, it is more complicated than this basic recipe, but it does show you how there are many directions that can be taken with the tongue.
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